Good Monday morning!

Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

 

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My shop adventures

I wish I could tell you all about the happenings in my own shop space, but not much has been going on the past few months, I have hit a dry spell, with my fun shop time being replaced by family adventure and events. I hope to get a dry spell soon so I can resume some of the projects I have pending, and start up in some areas I really want to explore such as Spring Pole Lathe turning, spoon carving, chair building, and just getting familiar and comfortable working with green wood. I may have to cut our tree down in our backyard very soon, so that would give me plenty of opportunity to create a shave horse from the trunk of the tree, and a carving block, or stump. Stay tuned!

 

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One of my favorite research sources is "Don's Maps". Don travels the world and documents everything, with photos and research, I don't know how one man can get around like Don does, and perform the academic quality research that he does. One of my favorite areas of Don's Maps is the "First Nations People" pages, since much of it revolves around working with wood.

 

Index of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast

The First Nations people of the Northwest Coast are renowned for their elegantly engineered canoes. Ranging in length from three to twenty meters, canoes were essential for travel, transport, hunting, and trade. Different coastal communities developed distinctive styles to suit their particular needs. . See More

 

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 I found this video appropriate for the image above, exploring a museum dedicated to the First Nations people of the Northern Pacific and Canada.

 

Monday 

 

Time to "Hibernate" here "Two Weeks From Anywhere"  we're not forecast to warm up to freezing until Sunday the 5th. 

 

 

A day of appointments. Bleh!  Tomorrow will be better.

Looks like it's to be a rainy week for us, but with ok temps.  I should be completing the dresser build, maybe as early as today.  Need to get an oil change done on the truck this week before I deliver said dresser.

Moving forward my next big project will be a group of cabinets to put in the garage.  I happened upon a bunch of king size headboards at a hotel liquidation outfit a couple months back.  They weren't free, and they didn't pay me to haul them off... but they were very, very reasonable.  I will start salvaging these panels and drawing up my cabinet plans based upon what I end up with.  A good project for a rainy week I think.

 

Appointments, appointments, appointments, etc, etc....

The drywall guy bailed on me over the weekend so the laundryroom is at a standstill. I will probably continue with some small turnings and get started on the countertop for the laundryroom.

Paul

Making the organization effort but don't have the mind set?  Work turns to play too easily for me while uncovering items that have been out of sight and............................ 

10 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Making the organization effort but don't have the mind set?  Work turns to play too easily for me while uncovering items that have been out of sight and............................ 

 

 I think I have the same problem, "Oh Look",  Now what was I saying? 

trying to find my get and up go and get and go do something useful:  start taking down Christmas decorations/turn a bow/start another cutting board/go shopping for some picture frames.....ugh.

 

 

Spent the morning at the furniture bank, only had 4 outside volunteers, but six of us club members.  Made 27 tables in a bit over two hours and cut a few hundred pieces to beef up parts inventory.  This afternoon, going to work on a rehab of wife's quilting ironing board.

All appointments met. They didn't take as long as originally thought. Time for lunch and a nap. Maybe some shop time afterwards. We'll see.

first glue up in the clamps.  using up scraps.

 

light cherry, dark cherry, ash, walnut.

 

present for a neighbor

 

5 minutes ago, DAB said:

first glue up in the clamps.  using up scraps.

 

light cherry, dark cherry, ash, walnut.

 

present for a neighbor

 

Love the choice of species. What flavor of Titebond are you using?

Edited January 30, 20233 yr by lew

glue was dry enough, i could plane things flat and recut and glue up #2:

 

let it dry all night, sanding tomorrow.

Was trying to ignore this being a Monday...

Tuesday: Front brakes worked on

Wednesday: ENT Guy to see why the Vertigo..

Thursday:  Cardio guy to discuss sending a probe down my throat, to check on a heart valve....

 

Feb. 8th:   I am getting "Micro-chipped"   for a heart monitor....

 

May TRY to fit in some shop time..some where?

Got up early to glue up the 3 pieces from a rectangle of butcherblock into a square butcherblock panel that will be a top for a new benchtop tool. 

2 hours later I unclamped it.  Brought in my track saw to trim one edge straight.  Had it right on the line, one end clamped to the bench. Half way through I realized the other end had slid over a quarter inch or so. Stopped and reset, and put a brace against the far end so it couldn't move.  Recut having only lost another 1/8" off the width.  Bitter windy cold day.  Made a trek to Pizza Hut to pick up some lunch.  Delicious. Drew up a CNC file to make a 1" radius corner template from some 12mm plywood.  Was nodding off at the PC, so laid down for awhile.  Must have needed sleep as I didn't wake up until after 6:00pm.  

Took the CNC file down to the basement CNC room. Cleared off, reset, clamped down a plywood scrap, and cut out the corner round template. 

Spent the next 40 minutes rounding each corner of the square panel.  Used a 3/4" diameter 1" long bottom bearing flush trim bit. First pass against the template clamped to the corner. Removed template, lowered the bit a little, and finished the cut.  

Tomorrow I'll bundle up then take the panel to my freezing garage show and run it through my open end drum sander. clean up small uneven seams.  After that I'll 1/4"round over top and bottom edges.   I've decided this machine table needs to be 38" to the top surface.  I don't want to be leaning over to work with the machine. I'll see what I have in my garage shop I can use to make a table base from.    

Edited January 31, 20233 yr by 4DThinker

Sorry all, I've been absent mostly since Saturday. I'll try to get caught up over the next several days but won't be around regular for a while.

 

It's with a heavy heart I make this post, but my step-father peacefully passed away ~3:30A Saturday at the age of 95, two days short of his 96th birthday which would have been today Monday, January 30th. A brief family only visitation will occur tomorrow, Jan 31 before leaving the funeral home for grave site services followed by his well earned Military Rites. He was a WWII veteran, arriving in England a few weeks before VE. He served the remainder of his time ('45-'47) in Occupied Germany. Another one of "The Greatest Generation" has gone home.

 

He was a good, kind man...but he was a great "father", grandfather, and great-grandfather. His physical presence will be greatly missed, but we rejoice in the fact we will see him again some day.

 

Below are two pictures. The first is his obituary picture...taken in 1945. He was 18. The second is one taken October, 27, 2014 just prior to boarding our Honor Flight at Purdue Airport. I had the honor and privilege to serve as his guardian. That day ranks in significance right along with the day I was married, birth of our daughter and our grandchildren. He was 87 in this picture.

 

I would ask for your prayers especially tomorrow ~1P, EST.

 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

It's with a heavy heart

God rest his soul. 

 

 

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Had one project shatter apart. Combined it with video of breakfast prep:

 

 

 

 

 

Lost for words Dave. Condolences on your loss, and thanks to your step dad for his service along with just being a wonderful person!